Pilot Testing and Psychometric Validation of the Nijmegen Professionalism Scale for Spanish Nursing.

Background And Purpose: Professional commitment is frequently used as a humanistic care indicator. Thus, it is important to design and validate a tool which is able to measure professional commitment of nurses in Spain. In this study we aimed to analyze the psychometric properties of the Nijmegen Professionalism Scale for Spanish (NPS-S) nursing in order to verify its validity and reliability.

Risk of Falling and Associated Factors in Older Adults with a Previous History of Falls.

Falls in the elderly are one of the main geriatric syndromes and a clear indicator of fragility in the older adult population. This has serious consequences, leading to an increase in disability, institutionalization and death. The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to analyze the prevalence of risk of falling and associated factors in a population of 213 non-institutionalised, able older adults with a history of falling in the previous year.

English-to-Spanish Translation of the Nijmegen Professionalism Scale.

Background And Purpose: The aim of this investigation was to perform the cross-cultural and linguistic translation and adaptation of the Nijmegen Professionalism Scale for Spanish nursing. Originally designed by Tromp et al. (2010) for its use by general practitioners, the new Spanish version of this tool assesses professional commitment, allowing for the comparison, prevention, association, and longitudinal monitoring of commitment among nursing professionals.

A concept analysis of professional commitment in nursing.

Background: The concept of professional commitment is being widely studied at present. However, although it is considered an indicator for the most human part of nursing care, there is no clear definition for it, and different descriptors are being used indiscriminately to reference it.

Objective: The aim of this study is to clarify the concept of professional commitment in nursing through the Rodgers' evolutionary concept analysis process.

[CONSEQUENCES OF FALLS IN A GERIATRIC NURSING CENTER FOR VALID. DESCRIPTIVE STUDY].

Objective: To address the immediate consequences produced in the falls suffered by valid institutionalized elderly population' in the last twelve months.

Method: A cross sectional study, by personal interview. Simple random sampling was performed.

[GUIDE TO DEVELOPING A RESEARCH PROJECT. PART TWO].

This work aims to develop a practical guide to writing a research project.

[GUIDE TO DEVELOPING A RESEARCH PROJECT. PART ONE].

This work aims to develop a practical guide to writing a research project.

[EPIDEMIOLOGY OF FALLS IN THE NON-INSTITUTIONALIZED SPANISH ELDERLY POPULATION, SYSTEMATIC REVIEW 2014].

Unlabelled: OBJECTIVE To identify scientific publications about falls among non-institutionalized Spanish elderly population and to summarize the study findings which analysed the incidence, the risk factors and the consequences of the falls in the geriatric spanish population aged 65 years and over who lives institutionalized in our country.

Material And Method: Systematic review of the epidemiological observational studies in Spain, with recording of falls, with temporary retrospective and published as scientific articles between the years 2003 and 2014 included. The articles search took place in July 2014, with the limit of language and publication year, in the electronic databases PubMed, Dialnet, RedALyC, SciELO, Enfispo and Google Scholar.

[GUIDE DEVELOPMENT OF A PROCESS MODEL OF NURSE APPLYING VIRGINIA HENDERSON AND TAXONOMY NANDA].

This study aims to develop a practical guide to applying the nur- sing model recognized Virginia Henderson NANDA taxonomy and nursing process.